The Klaatu Terminus

Kosh did not feel courageous. Looking at the disko, it was all he could do not to collapse into a quaking, blubbering puddle of terror. He was half certain he was going to die. But the alternative-leaving Emma in the hands of Gheen without even trying to rescue her-was unthinkable. He would not want to live if he had to live with that.

“It's not courage,” he said, “if you have no choice.”

In present-day Hopewell, an adult Kosh Feye discovers a sweet and painful piece of his past when he's res...